This is a perennial favorite pet’nat from Damien Delecheneau. It is from Touraine vines, around 80 years old and planted by Damien’s great-grandfather. The 2018 is not quite as dry... read more →
Brothers Fabien and Cyril Boisard, situated in Saint Nicolas de Bourgueil, take a simple whole bunch fermentation approach. That approach gives this gulpable wine plenty of serious charm. Fermented in... read more →
Benoît Courault started his domaine in 2006 and immediately he was at the head of the class. He has grown and matured and almost everything that comes from his hands... read more →
Having worked with Domaine Mélaric and Domaine des Roches Neuves, Maïté Perrocheau & Warren Truchon started up in Anjou. They acquired land from Joël Ménard of the Domaine des Sablonettes... read more →
While there are plenty of cartoonish labels out there that signal their naturalness, here’s one that refuses to fly the flag. Yet it's a wine worthy of any cab franc... read more →
Multi-talented (the La Dive diva, journalist, writer, vigneronne) Sylvie Augereau has made wine from a tiny 1.4ha parcel of old vines in Anjou since 2014. Her soils are a mélange... read more →
This is Milan’s let’s eat and drink perennial blend and the 2019 version is a big hit. All the grapes are destemmed, co-fermented using carbonic maceration, and then aged in... read more →
I tasted this with Pascale Choime and Laurence Alias way back, when the Les Anonymes tasting in Angers was still edgy. I was impressed then, and still am. The grapes... read more →
Nicolas Gonnin in Paris makes straightforward but spot-on Chinons. This former train conductor had his first vintage in 2021 and I have put him on my “one-to-watch” list. I love... read more →
Emmanuel Haget’s route was from geophysical engineer to the vines. He was also one of the lucky ones who, in 2016, was able to snag some of Philippe Gourdon’s vines... read more →